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About the only positive performance today came from Treasury bonds and notes, as investors scurried to the safety of government securities, and the VIX, the volatility index traded on the Chicago Board of Trade, which rose...
...report authored last month by Katinka Barysch, of the Centre for European Reform think-tank, says they were merely following E.U. recommendations: opening their markets to trade and investment and selling their local banks to western European ones. It helped to drive the export boom of the past five years but left them more vulnerable to the crisis. Western banks have lent $1.6 trillion to Eastern Europe, but the crisis could see them pull back yank credit lines from their local subsidiaries, triggering a domino effect of collapsing financial institutions...
...shopping spree serves China's purposes, too, helping to head off possible retaliation from Western countries against the huge trade surpluses maintained by Beijing. An unnamed European diplomat in Beijing told the Financial Times on Wednesday that China's "biggest nightmare" is being ordered by the U.S. and Europe to raise the value of their currency by 30% or face a 30% rise in tariffs. The pressure to revalue the Chinese currency could come as early as April 2, when the Group of 20 richest countries in the world meet in London, and where President Obama is scheduled to meet...
...With the projected $79 billion in cap-and-trade revenue, the Obama administration should support the development of clean, alternative energies. Cap-and-trade will help reduce emissions, but it may not be enough to reach the budget’s goals of a 14-percent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020, and 83 percent by 2050. Such drastic, long-term reductions will depend on a low-emission energy infrastructure for America, which can only be developed with alternative energy technology...
...historic magnitude of this budget is undisputed. Nationalized health care, cap-and-trade emissions regulation, an end to some agricultural subsidies, government loans, and, of course, tax hikes would have each—let alone all—been unheard of three years ago. Yet desperate times call for bold measures, and the recession demands the policy reform and funding plans of this budget...